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I commute from downtown to a fitness class in Brentwood twice a week. Only 15 miles, mind you. The only times they're held are 6:30am and 6:30pm and I am not waking up at 5am. I have to take the 10 E, which isn't so bad, but much better if I leave before 5pm. The first time I was stupid enough to listen to my GPS and take the 10 to the 405N. I know the 405 is terrible, but I thought "it's only a mile and a half..." YEAH, the first fourth of a mile on it took half an hour! Since then, I've learned to eschew that godforesaken thing and take side streets. It still takes about 45 minutes to an hour

The best is coming back. I wait until about 8 to leave and get home in 20 minutes. I try not to think about how a 45 minute class takes up about 3.5 hours of my day (including the waiting I do in the area to avoid some traffic)

I commute from downtown to a fitness class in Brentwood twice a week. Only 15 miles, mind you. The only times they're held are 6:30am and 6:30pm and I am not waking up at 5am. I have to take the 10 E, which isn't so bad, but much better if I leave before 5pm. The first time I was stupid enough to listen to my GPS and take the 10 to the 405N. I know the 405 is terrible, but I thought "it's only a mile and a half..." YEAH, the first fourth of a mile on it took half an hour! Since then, I've learned to eschew that godforesaken thing and take side streets. It still takes about 45 minutes to an hour

The best is coming back. I wait until about 8 to leave and get home in 20 minutes. I try not to think about how a 45 minute class takes up about 3.5 hours of my day (including the waiting I do in the area to avoid some traffic)

No right to complain. There are tons of fitness classes you can take near your home in Downtown and be there 5 minutes walk instead of a 3.5 hour ordeal. If I didn't have to work near downtown I would rarely go east of the 405, or even Bundy Dr..

LA's traffic has segregated us into our neighborhoods, the only reason we travel far is for work now. Work commuters can definitely complain.

My current commute is my best commute, 15 minutes to my job in Irvine (Alton near Irvine Boulevard).

But I really posted so I could write about two commutes my colleagues have. One guy, lives in Pasadena takes two trains (switch in downtown) and walks 30 minutes to our building from the Irvine train station. Two hour train ride plus 30 minutes walking ONE WAY. That's five hours a day. Been doing it for eight years and had driven the previous 12. He's close to 60 so he isn't going to move with retirement so close.

The other guy, lives in Lake Elsinor; he and his wife take Ortega Highway, she drops him off then she heads to her job at Cal State Fullerton. On the way home they don't even take the 5 or the toll road - they go streets all the way through Lake Forest and Mission Viejo - 150 miles round trip each day.

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